| Code |
Description |
| LA.8.1.7.1: | The student will use background knowledge of subject and related content areas, prereading strategies, graphic representations, and knowledge of text structure to make and confirm complex predictions of content, purpose, and organization of a reading selection; |
| LA.8.1.7.2: | The student will analyze the authors purpose and/or perspective in a variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning; |
| LA.8.1.7.3: | The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details; |
| LA.8.1.7.4: | The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text; |
| LA.8.1.7.5: | The student will analyze a variety of text structures (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, chronological order, argument/support, lists) and text features (main headings with subheadings) and explain their impact on meaning in text; |
| LA.8.1.7.6: | The student will analyze and evaluate similar themes or topics by different authors across a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections; |
| LA.8.1.7.7: | The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple texts (e.g., setting, characters, problems); and |
| LA.8.1.7.8: | The student will use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-appropriate text when self-monitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, note-making, summarizing, using graphic and semantic organizers, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources. |
This cluster includes the following access points.
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LA.8.1.7.In.a: | Use background knowledge of the subject, guided previewing strategies, graphic representations, and text features (e.g. table of contents, headings, subheadings, charts and maps, text styles, index, glossary) to make and confirm predictions of content and |
| LA.8.1.7.In.b: | Identify the author’s purpose (e.g. to inform, entertain, persuade) in a variety of text formats (e.g. stories, letters, reports) and use the information to construct meaning. |
| LA.8.1.7.In.c: | Determine the main idea or essential message in text through guided retelling and identifying relevant details and facts. |
| LA.8.1.7.In.d: | Identify cause and effect relationships in stories and informational text. |
| LA.8.1.7.In.e: | Identify text structures (e.g. comparison/contrast, cause/effect relationships, chronological order) in narrative and informational text using strategies, including graphic organizers. |
| LA.8.1.7.In.f: | Identify a theme shared by two or more fiction and nonfiction selections. |
| LA.8.1.7.In.g: | Identify similarities and differences in characters, actions, or settings in two texts. |
| LA.8.1.7.In.h: | Use strategies to repair comprehension, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, using graphic organizers, and requesting assistance for clarification. |
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.a: | Use background knowledge of the subject and text features (e.g. title, illustrations, graphics, table of contents, headings) to make and confirm predictions of content of reading selections. |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.b: | Identify the author’s purpose (e.g. to inform, entertain, persuade) using key words, phrases, and graphics in a variety of reading selections. |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.c: | Determine the main idea or essential message in text through identifying the topic, relevant details, and facts, including but not limited to who, what, where, when, how, and what happened. |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.d: | Identify explicit cause/effect relationships in stories and informational text. |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.e: | Identify similarities and differences and the sequence of events in stories and informational text using strategies, including graphic organizers. |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.f: | Recognize a theme shared by two fiction or nonfiction selections. |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.g: | Use strategies to repair comprehension, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, using graphic organizers, and checking own understanding when reminded. |
| LA.8.1.7.Su.h: | Identify persons, objects, actions, and settings in read-aloud narrative and informational text. |
